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Eirún Sigurðardóttir

• Year : 2020
• Height : 85 cm
• Width : 500 cm
• Category : Textíll
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The day after the first COVID-19 case was diagnosed in Iceland, at the start of 2020, Eirún started a new work, one meter long and wide, on canvas. She originally planned the work similarly to her previous flowing-embroidery works. The last stitch in this first part of the tapestry came on 8 April, when the country’s leading epidemiologist announced that the contagion had most likely reached the top of the curve. Thus, Eirún began stitching the next part, which was meant to be worked on while the pandemic was receding. As we all know that’s not what happened. Eventually, the parts became five in total, and the end of the tapestry marks the day when the government dropped the obligatory mask mandate towards the end of 2021. Perceptive viewers may be able to see the epidemic’s progress in the abstract forms, the flowing colours and the materials, mixed with the artist’s personal life and seismic activity at Reykjanes Peninsula. However, Eirún’s stitches are always free flowing, without planning the next step, almost like a prophetess who has powerful knowledge of fate and it is up to the recipient to interpret the prophesy.

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